History

This section, devoted to primarily the Georgian and Regency eras, is meant to dovetail with Original Resources. It also includes teacher links:

Jane Austen

• Jane Austen in Context, edited by Janet Todd, 2005, Cambridge University Press, ISBN# 0-521-82644-6
• Jane Austen: A Family Record, Deirdre Le Faye, 2004
• The Peerage.com: The Knights, Knatchbulls, and the Austens family tree
• Placing Jane Austen, Displacing England: Touring Between Book, History and Nation, Mike Crang
• Jane Austen and the Women of Her Time, What was the place of women in the early 19th century?
• Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels,Deirdre Le Faye, 2002 (Only select portions of this book are available in this link.)
• Jane Austen: Critical Assessments, Ian Littlewood, 1998
• Jane Austen and Her Time, Jim and Helen Moody
• A Fine Brush of Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen, Richard, Jenkyns, 2004, (first 96 pages)
• Time Lines Find a variety of time lines pertaining to Jane Austen’s novels, her life, and era
• The Persuasive and Provincial Jane Austen, Sara Wilson
• Jane Austen: Obstinate Heart, Valerie Grosvenor Meyer, 1997
• Jane Austen: Real and Imagined Worlds, Oliver MacDonagh, 1991
• Jane Austen’s Obsession With Money, Sharon Harvey Rosenberg
• Jane Austen’s Economics, 20 page PDF document, Financial Page Group
• Jane Austen: A Life, David Nokes, Partial Book
• Jane Austen & The Representations of Regency England, Roger Sales, 1996, Partial Book
• The American Society of Jane Austen Scholars Home Page

Georgian Era

• Wives and Daughters: Women and Children in the Georgian Country House, by Joanna Martin, 2004
• Topic One: The Georgian World, Lecture
• Georgian, Regency, and Victorian Research
• England and the English in the 18th Century, William Connor Sydney, 1891
• Roads, Tolls, and Highwaymen, Rosamond Bayne-Powell
• The History of Ballooning
• Georgian,Regency, and Victorian Research
• The Georgian Underworld
• Disputed Pleasures: Sport and Society in Preindustrial England, Thomas S. Henricks, 1991
• Travel in Georgian England
• Fashioning Childhood in the 18th Century: Age and Identity, Anja Muller
• Little Memoirs of the 18th Century, George Paston, 1901
• Mrs. Delaney (Mary Granville): A Memoir, 1700-1788, George Paston and Emily Morse Symonds, 1900

Regency Era

• Regency
• Life in Regency England, R.J. White, 1963, some free pages
• The Bolles Collection on the History of London, Tufts University
• Sussex Seventy Years Ago: Reminiscences of Nathaniel Payne Blaker, Hove, Sussex, 1919
• Precedence: Peerage, 1818
• France in Russia: Hermitage
• Letter Writing, Road Transport, and the Mail in the Extended Regency Era
• Nelson and the Royal Navy
• Empire and Sea Power
• A History of the British Empire in the 19th Century: 1793-1805, Marcus R.P. Dorman, 1902
• Age of Sail, Regency, and Napoleonic War Links
• The Sceptered Isle: 1803-1830 timeline
• Jane Austen Related Posts: Dregston
• The Last of the Dandies: The Scandalous Life and Escapades of Count d’Orsay, Nick Foulkes, 2005

Victorian Era

• Exquisite Victorian Links
• Victorian Websites
• Victorian Studies on the Web
• Dickens Glossary
• History in Focus: The Victorian Era
• Welcome to 1876 Victorian England
  
• 19th Century Art of Mourning
• Curiosities of London Life: Phases Physiological and Social, of The Great Metropolis, Charles Manby Smith, 1972, Cass Library of Victorian Times
• Correct Behavior on a Picnic: Victoriana
• David Purdue’s Dicken’s Page
• Writer’s Resources: Victorian Era
• Queen Victoria During the Regency
• English Victorian Society
• Victorian Interiors and More: Blog
• Victorian Servants
• Video: A Day in the Hayfields, 1904

Mega Sites

• Deb’s Historical Research Page
• Great Britain and the United Kingdom

Art and Architecture

• Researching Historic Buildings in the British Isles
• Modern Architecture: Nash and the Regency, PPT
• The Traditional Buildings, Preservation Trust
• Researching the History of Country Houses
• Weymouth’s Georgian Seafront Architecture and the Local Architect James Hamilton
• English 18th Century Architecture
• 18th Century Domestic Architecture: Robert Adam (blog post)
• 19th Century Landscape in Art
• Regency Architecture: Brighton.com
• Georgian, Regency, and England Today
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
• The Portman Estate: The Restoration to the Regency
• The Regency Style’s Debt to Napoleon
• Regency Style Architecture: New York Public Library
• The Antiques Marks.com: Find definitions and terminology pertaining to antiques
• Haymarket, Theatre Royal
• The History of Art and Design
• Regent’s Park, London Portrait Magazine

Business and Economics

• Competition and Growth of Advertising in the U.S. and Britain 1800-1914, T.A.B. Corley, University of Reading, 14 page PDF document
• The Cost of Living in Jane Austen’s England
• Banking in England: The GeorgianIndex
• Root, Hilton L. The Fountain of Privilege: Political Foundations of Markets in Old Regime France and England. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1994 1994.

Geography

• British Towns and Villages Network
• Berkshire History
• Berkshire: Georgian and Victorian Times
• Cotswolds History
• The Cotswolds History and Heritage
• Norfolk: A Place in History
• The Peak District Towns and Villages
• English Lakes: A Short History of Cumbria
• Yorkshire

History & Social History

• The Oxford History of England, Kenneth O. Morgan
• Bucks and Bruisers: Pierce Egan and Regency England, John Cowie Reid, partial book
• Britain: 1750-1900, Walter Robson, 1993, Partial Book Available
• British History in the 19th Century, 1782-1901, George Macaulay Trevelyan, 2007
• Gender, Sex, and Subordination in England 1500-1800, Anthony Fletcher
• A Digest of the Laws of Scotland, Hugh Barclay, 1855
• Industrial Britain Under the Regency: 1814-1818, W.O. Henderson
• Machine Breaking in England and France during the Age of Revolution, Jeff Horn
• Investigating England and the Slave Trade
• The War Times Journal
• The Social Character of the Estate: A Survey of Householders c. 1790
• Trends in Linguistics: The History of English in a Social Context, By Dieter Kastovsky, Arthur Mettinger
• Atlas of Plucked Instruments: Music

Original Sources: History

• Britannia History
• British History Online
• British Titles of Nobility
• Capital Punishment in the U.K.
• Full Text Documents by Period, Rutgers
• Historical Autographs: British History, 1800-1950
• History Digital Library
• Historical Text Archive
• Find Social and Historical Resources, such as postage and transportation on this site.
• National Archives of the United Kingdom
• The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George III, Sir Erskine, May 1861
• Rural Rides, William Cobbett, 1802
• The Life of Lord Nelson, Robert Southey, 1813
• A Guide to the Sources of British Military History, Robin Higham, 1971, partial book

Teacher Links

• Art and Culture: Jane Austen
  
• Articles About Jane Austen: NY Times
• Dom Nicholas’ Writing About Jane Austen: Her Clergy Men
  
• In the Footsteps of Jane Austen: The Cultured Traveler
• Jane Austen: Lesson Plans and Other Teaching Resources
• Jane Austen Pathfinder
• Jane Austen Teacher Resource File
• Jane Austen: 86 Manually Selected Sites
• Jane Austen: Reader Responses to Austen’s Novels
• Jane Austen: Reading Guide
• Jane Austen: Women’s History, King’s College
• Literary Gothic: Jane Austen

Travel and Transportation

• A Brief History of Transportation in Birmingham
• Regency Public Transportation: Regency Ramble
• Coaching Days and Road Engineers
• Coaching Days and Ways
• Ferrybridge Coaching Days, Eric Houlder
• The Holyhead Road: The Mail Coach Road to Dublin, Charles George Harper, 1902
• Stage Travel in Britain: Georgian Index
• Travel in Britain: 1750-2000: From Canal to Gridlock, Bagwell and Lyth
• Turnpikes and Stagecoaches
• The Way in Which Toll Roads Changed the English Landscape, Andrew Wagner, 2001
• Highways and Horses, Athol Maudslay, 1888
• History of Ballooning
  

Additional Resources

• Jane Austen in Hollywood, by Linda Troost (Editor) and Sayre Greenfield (Editor). University Press of Kentucky, 82 pages on view.
• Prospect and Refuge in the Landscape of Jane Austen, Barbara Britton Wenner (Partial pages available.)
• Jane Austen and the History of Landscape, by Mavis Batey, Review
• Jane Austen and the Women of Her Time, translated from Dutch
• The Talk in Jane Austen, Edited by Bruce Stovel and Lynn Weinloss Gregg, 1999
• Channel 4 History
• Andrew Cusack: The History Archives
• Historic Glass Bottle Identification
• Brewery History